ISNS Celebrates International Neonatal Screening Day 2024 with a New IJNS CiteScore, a Global Report and a WHO Resolution
Peter C. J. I. Schielen
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TopicsNeonatal Respiratory Health Research · Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies · Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes
The International Journal of Neonatal Screening (IJNS), founded in 2015 by the International Society for Neonatal Screening (ISNS), has quickly become the most important journal for scientific papers on neonatal screening, as indicated by an impressive impact factor of 3.5 granted in 2023, in its ninth year. As of June 2024, our CiteScore is 6.7.
On 25 May 2024, IJNS encountered a new historical moment. The paper, ‘Current Status of Newborn Bloodspot Screening Worldwide 2024: A Comprehensive Review of Recent Activities (2020–2023)’ was published, with 184 pages of extensive information on the topic:
The ISNS is greatly indebted to ISNS Guthrie award recipient and ISNS-founding member Bradford Therrell for composing this opus that will be valuable to neonatal screening globally for many years to come. The ISNS extends that gratitude to the co-authors and to the acknowledged ISNS members that reviewed parts of this comprehensive document.
The significance of this contribution to IJNS should not be underestimated. It illustrates the similarities and differences of neonatal screening programs across the world. It is the core of the mission and vision of the ISNS to evaluate that global state of neonatal screening, to appreciate those differences and identify areas for improvement to secure equitable neonatal screening and equal health outcomes for children and their parents globally.
If a summary covers on average 10% of a paper, a summary of this paper would be 18 pages long, which is possibly not palatable for our readers. So, below are a short list of teasers that will hopefully invite you to go through the pages and discover the personal neonatal screening findings of your interest.
Next, the ISNS will use the wealth of data in ‘Current Status of Newborn screening worldwide’ to populate the virtual maps on the ISNS website, available for free for all ISNS members (https://membership.isns-neoscreening.org/charts/globe).
Coincidentally, Dr. Anshu Banerjee, the Director for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health at the World Health Organization, managed to have a paragraph on neonatal screening approved as part of the resolution for global policy implementation during the 77th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland (27 May–1 June 2024).
The paragraph is as follows:
This means that countries, non-governmental organizations, development agencies and development banks will now consider prioritizing neonatal screening among other Mother and Child Health projects.
This recognition of universal newborn screening as an important public health service at the highest WHO level is of vital importance for the work of the ISNS and all involved in neonatal screening. To have published the sharpest picture of global neonatal screening at the same time seems only fitting and is an inspiration to jointly pursue and develop the best screening practices for all babies and parents globally.
We will celebrate all this and more on 28 June 2024, the fourth International Neonatal Screening Day (https://neonatalscreeningday.org/).